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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1940
Page
5
Marshall T. Miles launches the Music Store of Tomorrow in Winchester after outgrowing the Harrisonburg location. The Miles Music Co now serves parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia with 35 employees, six trucks and a van, and a top-tier service shop.
Miles T Miles proprietor of Miles Music Co surveys eight years as a pro nce business man in Harrisonburg and Winchester. His new store is a modern Music Store of Tomorrow the second of its kind in the country and showcases his progressiveness in the music field.
Proprietor Miles Music Co. marks eight years of growth as a leading music dealer. The 27 000 square feet stores employ 35 people and open tonight at 7 30 with Mayor Chas A Anderson and Chamber officials officiating. Visitors sample Dr Pepper cookies Tru A de and enter prize drawings including a console radio and a table model radio. Mrs Miles active in civic affairs.
The article recalls the Graham piano brought to the Shenandoah Valley circa 1805 during Jefferson's presidency. It notes the instrument cost about 100 pounds, its later donation to the Chicago Historical Society, and contextualizes the Valley's long musical tradition. It highlights Miles Music Co. expanding in Virginia and marketing Baldwin Kimball and Wurlitzer pianos.
The Miles Music Co announces the Music Store of Tomorrow grand opening at 7:30 pm with three evenings and two days of events led by Mayor Chas. Anderson and Chamber of Commerce president C. P. McVicar. Visitors register for prizes including a 1941 G E console radio and a 1941 table model radio, plus gifts with piano or radio purchases.
Robert F Gaines, manager of Winchester’s new music store, is a Harrisonburg native who entered the music field after education. He has led the Winchester store for three years and is active in the Baptist Church and Winchester Lions Club, earning friends and support for the Miles Music Co. store.
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